Upgrade Vodyani Arks Independently

It sounds like a good idea!

Maybe when you autoupgrade you can choose different variations for the hull type,  like a science one can be configured differently then a economic one. 

So you make a new ark, with a crap ton of thrusters to get to a new system quickly. Once its there you can upgrade it between the different speacilizations.

I agree that Arcs should be able to be upgraded independently. I mean, it's nice to have an "Upgrade" button, like it is now, but considering that Vodyani Arcs are pretty unique in ES2, we should have the ability to customize each of them individually, their modules and hence bonuses to system's production.

@SpaceTroll, it's too much micromanagement to consistantly switch designs between your "colony" Arks (which are often specialized) and your military Arks. 

Having the ability to at least create two designs would go a long way into alleviating this. 

Aea wrote:

@SpaceTroll, it's too much micromanagement to consistantly switch designs between your "colony" Arks (which are often specialized) and your military Arks. 

Having the ability to at least create two designs would go a long way into alleviating this. 

I agree with the Idea of having more than one Ark design (we could choose between severals at the creation)

Well, as with most 'out of vision' ideas, boo.

@SpaceTroll, I completely disagree! It's a LOT more micromanagement the way it is now. This idea would *reduce* micromanagement and make the Vodyani Arks feel more complete.

I think this idea is going in the wrong direction. Instead of developing Arks independently, I think having the option to select the Ark as an available ship hull would remove the problem. You can have the standard Ark ship layout as the colony one (as you start with it) and you could create one to several custom Ark layouts for your military (or hybrid) ones. It would basically work like every other ship layout. It would make it impossible to switch from the starter layout to a custom layout, like with other ship hulls, but that would be within the limitations of the game.

@SpaceTroll: wouldn't this be feasable?

The Behemoths allow you to have multiple templates, so there's even less excuse for this to be considered "Out of Vision" now. I despise the current system, that requires me to write down all of the modules one of my Arks has so I can recreate it, then make my change on the template, then update my Ark, and then move on to the next Ark, which has different modules, so I have to write them down to recreate that design in the template, etc. It's just rediculous.